Instruments for ESA's Distributed Space Weather Sensor System (D3S)

ArduSiPM a small, light and low power, All-In-One particle detector

23 Oct 2019, 17:50

10m

H-I (European Space Operations Center)

Instrument presentations

Speaker

Valerio Bocci (INFN)

Description

ArduSiPM, developed within the INFN, is the first particle detector in the scientific literature to use a microcontroller and a limited number of external components to control and acquire a scintillation detector using the new high sensitivity photodetector : the Silicon Photomultiplier (SiPM). It is a technology transfer available in the market under INFN license. The detector is utilized in medical physics research, as beam loss monitor in the CERN accelerator, as cosmic ray detector in stratospheric balloons. Thanks to its low cost, it is used in school and university laboratories and outreach programs.
The use of ArduSiPM as a photon counter in astrophysics and analytical chemistry is under study.
A smaller and more performing version of ArduSiPM is under study in the INFN (Soc eLectronIcs Compact dEtector (SLICE project).